The history of black people being intimidated and coerced to be subordinate and submissive by lynching is a long one.
While it was more common in the southern United States, especially in the 'deep south' states that started the Civil War, we have had our share of lynching black people in the northern states too. Racists are not specific or unique to the south, as anyone who is familiar with the history of the Old Right, prior to the mid 1960s, and the New Right, when the former Dixie conservative Democrats changed parties, joined the 'New Right' racist Republicans. Beginning with Barry Goldwater's run for the presidency in 1964, when he won only his home state of Arizona, and a handful of southern states, where there was deep animosity towards blacks gaining the vote as a result of civil rights legislation, racism has been closely linked with conservative politics, and continues to be.
As noted in a city pages article, there has been a recurring pattern of lynching President Obama in effigy that appears to be both conservative and racist.
In Rochester, Laura Mulholland made a pro-Romney statement that way.
From KAAL TV:
And as the City Pages and the Duluth News Tribune noted:
As
the Duluth News Tribune's Brandon Stahl explains, law enforcement
apparently thought the visual of a Obama doll hanging from a noose was
funny:
In the Upper Midwest, it seems nooses have become the
unofficial symbol of the racist anybody-but-Obama segment of the
population.
While it was more common in the southern United States, especially in the 'deep south' states that started the Civil War, we have had our share of lynching black people in the northern states too. Racists are not specific or unique to the south, as anyone who is familiar with the history of the Old Right, prior to the mid 1960s, and the New Right, when the former Dixie conservative Democrats changed parties, joined the 'New Right' racist Republicans. Beginning with Barry Goldwater's run for the presidency in 1964, when he won only his home state of Arizona, and a handful of southern states, where there was deep animosity towards blacks gaining the vote as a result of civil rights legislation, racism has been closely linked with conservative politics, and continues to be.
As noted in a city pages article, there has been a recurring pattern of lynching President Obama in effigy that appears to be both conservative and racist.
In Rochester, Laura Mulholland made a pro-Romney statement that way.
From KAAL TV:
The woman at the home openly told us the chair represents President Obama, as it did in Clint Eastwood's speech at the Republican National Convention. She also told us the noose is intended to target the President's race...
"The noose was my husband's idea. The chair, we got that from when Clint Eastwood spoke to that empty chair at the Republican National Convention. That's where we got the idea to hang the empty chair from the tree," said Laura Mulholland. She stands behind her display and says it was meant to spread a message.
"President Obama needs to go, by the ballot box. He needs to go. What he's done hasn't been good for our country," said Mulholland...
"I can say what I want, and yes you can be offended, but just because your offended doesn't mean that this is wrong," said Mulholland. Mulholland says the First Amendment protects her display and admits it's aimed at the President's race...
And as the City Pages and the Duluth News Tribune noted:
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| Brandon Stahl (@b_stahl) |
Police say the effigy has been removed. However, the person who took the photo said two officers laughed at the effigy before taking it down
Welcome Brandt to penigma.
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